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About This Episode
This week we speak with “strategic futurist and pattern navigator” Adah Parris, a London-based wizard and weirdo with whom I immediately hit it off over our shared interest in “cyborg shamanism” and an emphasis on being good ancestors. Forbes Brasil called her “one of the most important futurists in the world.” It’s hard for me to measure the impact she’s had on business leaders, tech startups, marketing and communications firms, arts schools, and in the lives of the countless other people.
We talk about the relationship between numbers, language, and the ineffable, ever-shifting human spirit. Adah’s work points past knowledge and history into the elemental nature of both human and machine, past our differences into the deep similarity worth celebrating and the mystery that we inhabit and embody. Join us for a yarn that is both silly and profound, present and far-reaching, about being uncategorizably creative, open, and curious amidst the wicked problems of our time…
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Chapters
0:00:00 - Teaser0:00:49 - Intro0:05:24 - Feeling Seen & Heard0:09:54 - Adah’s Biography0:17:21 - Poetry & Number0:27:55 - Cyborg Shamanism & The Five Elements0:37:03 - The Foraging Neurotype of “Extremely Online”0:51:07 - Surrendering Agency to Systems0:55:14 - The Incremental Reclamation of Agency1:01:19 - Art after Modernity & Healing from Noise1:13:01 - Beyond Narrative & Into Dance1:17:30 - Thanks & Announcements
Adah’s Links
Website | Instagram | LinkedIn | Medium | Chartwell Speakers
Finding Our Future in Ancestral Wisdom @ TEDxSoho
What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want To Be? @ Think With Google
Cyborg Shamanism & The Case for Elemental AI @ Atmos
Mentioned Media
Refactoring “Autonomy” & “Freedom” for The Age of Language Modelsby Michael Garfield
223 - Timothy Morton on A New Christian Ecology & Systems Thinking BlasphemyFuture Fossils Podcast
Attention deficits linked with proclivity to explore while foragingby David L. Barack et al.
New Selves of Neural Media & AI as 'The Poison Path' with K Allado-McDowellHumans On The Loop
Raising AI: An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Futureby De Kai
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